Green Enabled Next-Generation Sensing and Innovation Strategies (GENESIS)
Call: HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-2-RIA
CUP: E53C24004490002
GENESIS launched in May 2025 under the Horizon Europe programme. It’s a three-year Chips JU flagship project, co-funded by the EU, participating Member States, and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
Led by CEA-Leti in France, the project brings together 58 partners from across Europe. This includes major industry players, research organisations, small and medium-sized enterprises, and environmental specialists. The goal is simple but ambitious: develop technologies that make semiconductor manufacturing cleaner, more efficient, and better for the planet.
Four Pillars Driving Change
GENESIS focuses its work around four main areas:
- Monitoring and sensing – Tracking air and liquid emissions in real time to keep fabs as clean as possible.
- New materials – Finding PFAS-free, low-global-warming-potential alternatives for advanced chipmaking.
- Waste minimisation – Creating closed-loop systems that recycle gases, solvents, and slurries instead of discarding them.
- Critical raw materials mitigation – Using less of scarce resources like gallium and indium, and finding ways to reuse what’s already in the system.
Members of the Consortium:
- CEA
- AALTO
- AIXTRON SE
- ARKEMA (FRANCE)
- BESI (NETHERLANDS)
- ICRA-CERCA
- CT-CS
- CS CLEAN SOLUTIONS
- EDWARDS
- FATH GMBH
- THERMO (NETHERLANDS)
- Fraunhofer
- GASERA
- IMEC
- IFAG
- ISL
- LAYERONE AS
- LEONARDO
- MERCK
- MERSEN
- Molymem
- NXP-NL
- Pfeiffer
- PIBOND
- PICOSUN OY
- POLITECNICO OF MILAN
- BOSCH
- S+H
- Screen SPE
- SEMI Europe
- SINTEF
- SOITEC SA
- ST Italy
- ST Malta
- TOKYO ELECTRON
- Thermo Onix Ltd
- TNO
- TYNDALL
- UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA
- UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA
- UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
- VARIOLYTICS
- VOCSens
- VTT
- WEEECYCLING
- UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
- TECHNIC FRANCE
- TECHNIC ULTRA PURE SAS
- HQ-D
- THERMO-DE
- ST Rousset
- ST Crolles
- ArgYou AG
- CSEM
- GlobalFoundries
- IBM
- TOFWERK AG